Peter L. Berger on Religion

Titus Hjelm is Professor in the Study of Religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of Social Constructionisms: Approaches to the Study of the Human World and editor of Peter L. Berger and the Sociology of Religion: 50 Years after The Sacred Canopy. He is the Editor in Chief of Sociology of Religion.

"In this elegantly written volume, Hjelm introduces and critiques the work of the 20th century’s most influential sociologist of religion, and then he retrieves the best of Berger’s ideas for the 21st century. Even those of us who think we know Berger will find new insight here."Nancy Ammerman, Boston University, USA."In this excellent resource for both novice and expert readers, Hjelm carefully situates Peter Berger's scholarship in relationship to the nineteenth and twentieth-century intellectual contexts to which Berger was responding, discusses his influence and ongoing legacy in the academic study of religion, and offers an account of what perhaps remains of value in his work for twenty-first century scholars of religion."Craig Martin, St Thomas Aquinas College, USA.

• 1. A Brief Intellectual Biography 2. Sociology of Knowledge and Sociology of Religion 3. Secularization and Desecularization 4. Berger’s Influence 5. Berger’s Critics 6. Rethinking Berger and Religion Index